The Colorado Diagonal was a project dreamt up by Stephen Fitzgerald, and joined by David Hornick. The concept of the ride was simple: Ride from the north easy corner of the state to the soutwest corner, in the most diagonal route possible. After that, it was anything but simple. Long days, high heat, big mountains, dead ends, and tired legs conspired against the riders, but they pushed through to stand on the Four Corners medallion at the finish line on day 5.
In this episode, Logan Jones-Wilkins makes a guest re appearance to host the epsiode and host a conversation about the ride, the route, the gear,and what happened out there.
You can find the Rodeo Labs Podcast wherever you get your podcast, or it is also embedded below.
You can read more about the Diagonal project and find the route here.
3 responses to “Rodeo Podcast: Colorado Diagonal Recap”
What a great project. I don’t know if you’re interested in small route changes, but for getting from Lake City to Silverton, the downhill off the west side of Cinnamon Pass is much easier on the body than the horror show that is the west side of Engineer. The distance is similar and the east side climbs are about the same level of difficulty.
Thanks for the suggestion. We did consider Cinnamon all the way up to the morning than we went up and over, but we decided for Engineer because it was just a proper crux of the whole route. I’ve been up and over both of them previoulsy, and really love the especially epic views at the top of Engineer, and wanted to see Engineer again for sentimental reasons. I didn’t remember Engineer being as torn up it was on the descent though. We were either younger, dumber, or tougher back in 2018! Will probably add to the route in RWGPS with an info tag that says that Cinnamon has a slightly more gentle descent – although honestly it’s no joke either.
Your memory isn’t wrong. I ride them both every year (although not yet this year, gotta get on it) and Engineer just gets worse and worse. You’re right about the views too; that makes it worth the pain.